Good ole Hazel what a pillar and upstanding citizen she is by paying the 13k back. Wonder if she would have bothered if it wasn't all over the news, no I don't really, what a load of poppycock.

Nice to know our own "jenny from the block" has thirteen grand in her back bin just waiting to hand the taxman .

F00kin B0LLOX!

the green party? i got a leaflet saying if one in ten people vote for us the BNP will not get a seat... thats got my vote

And me

Good photo in Private Eye of Ms Blears in a green dress.

Interestingly, anyone on benfits (that includes State Pension) who accidentally forget to send in earnings or capital/claim for things they shouldn't/suddenly remember another account or home ...
are considered guilty and can be chased through the courts.
Who decided this?
Our politicians.

Yes agree HR - Surely though once youve sent a Tax Return not mentioning a Property Sale subject to Capital Gains then there is no way you or I would be able to just send a cheque and have done with it. Just think this HB story will eventually finish her off.

I was at Eccles College with Ms Blears. She was such a nice girl (although I reckoned she used to smoke too much).

rlrl

For what it's worth, my opinion: lots of working people, as well as the likes of Cochrane and Cobbett, struggled to enable us to get the vote (I assume I'm not talking to any landed gentry here). So I'm not wasting it on this shower.

Voting is important, so one should only vote for someone you trust. So the last time my ballot paper was unspoiled was 1974. And the sod that I voted for then lurched to the right and joined the SDP.

I'd prefer a bunch of flesh eating zombies to either of those lot

Superb post - agree entirely, Woy Jenkins, The sainted Shirley, David Owen and the one everyone forgets Bill Rodgers - it was the year Labour made Michael Foot leader, and whilst I was always a great fan of duffle coats even I questioned his ability to head up the nation!!

But what a sickening shower this lot are - It's my understanding that on filing an expenses claim the MP has to sign to the effect that the expenses are entirely in the fulfillment of their parliamentary duties - if that is the case then surely they have committed fraud and should be prosecuted, not just say "sorry" and give a few bob back! Their excuse that "the fees office accepted the claim and paid it" is nonsense, that just shows that the fees office were incompetant - these people are CORRUPT!

spot on....................and precisely why I don't vote.

Here's a suggestion........why doesn't the entire nation wise up, and agree [ien masse [/ito boycott any future elections

i.e. don't cast a solitary vote for any of the bent bleeders, no matter which party they purport to represent.

Perhaps then they'll begin to get the message

They are as corrupt and self-serving as the assholes from the financial institutions, and personally, I hope they all rot in hell.

end of rant.......temporarily

Last year I wrote to The Independent suggesting the following:
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Sir,

The current furore regarding MP's salary in relation to other Public Sector pay increases has an obvious solution:

Let all MP's receive the average wage of their constituency, let the Prime Minister receive the average wage of the whole nation.

At a stroke that would put paid to all arguments about their worth, the only way for an MP to increase their income would be to better the lot of those that voted for them.

Whilst implementing that strategy, the government could well go further and legislate so that any leader who purports to represent others should have their salary capped at the average of those represented. Trades Union Leaders, Archbishops, Council Chief Executives, Chief Constables could all come under the same rules.

I doubt that such a scheme will ever come into force, but any party that proposed it would get my vote!

Yours Faithfully
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They didn't publish the letter!!